I use FreeTube which seems to still work fine but it seems to me like the browser plugin that opens YouTube links in FreeTube does not work properly sometimes
I've just started using freetube. I've noticed short periods of very low quality stream once in a while. Not sure if the periods match Ad time, tho. Do you experience those low Q periods?
I might but I am not sure. My internet speed is often a bit unreliable so if I had a drop in quality or issues with buffering I ´just attributed it to that.
I usually just switch it from auto to 1080p or whatever is available and that fixes it 90% of the time, sometimes it takes a second or 2 to fix the quality though.
Edit, I'll rephrase that. You can fork it and do whatever, even remove the "please donate" thing, but if you distribute any spy/malware versions they have legal avenues to force it to get taken down.
TBH it's not proprietary either. I'm OK with such licensing because it helps the developers fuck the clowns over who try to take their code without even a thanks. The source is available to audit if you'd like. That's what I really care about.
The amount of FOSS snobbery in this community is hilarious. You typed that comment on a proprietary device with proprietary hardware, probably running proprietary software (unless you're on Linux, truly using ALL open source stuff, including RISC-V hardware, FOSS browser and network stack). But God forbid an app is just source available instead of truly FOSS. Gasp! The horror! You should complain about it using one of the completely closed-source Android/iPhone apps that you use every day.
NewPipe and the fork Pipe pipe have been working working on my android. Can't say anything on the piped or invidious side of things since I don't watch videos on browser if I can avoid it.
Until now, YT videos works flawless in SMplayer and MotionBox Browser, the last one is IMHO the best desktop client for nearly all streaming platforms, only drawback is a bad and not very intuitive UI.